
Richard Seaford on the Mysteries
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The Mystery Cults
The idea of undergoing a kind of death in order to be filled with hope for fate after the eventual real death is I think central to a number of mystery cults. A lusus and in some dinos yet cults so of course if the initiate is going to be terrified initially so as to become happy eventually then the ritual has to be secret. If you know that well you're not going to be killed and you's not going to suffer greatly but you are going to end up in a happy place in a meadow with beautiful sounds consulting with pure men says Pluto. Those three transitions are the heart of a certain kind of mystery cult and are partially embodied in a whole
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